I got back home from San Diego last night. I had a miserable flight because of the tail end of a cold. I coughed, snuffled, and sneezed my way through the flight. I didn’t get to enjoy the nice weather in San Diego because of the cold. I didn’t do much while I was home […]
I am going home to San Diego tomorrow. One of the things I do every Christmas is upgrade my Dad’s computer to the newest version of [Fedora](http://fedora.redhat.com). However, FC4 has been out for six months so there is a whole pile of updates. Instead of downloading all the updates after the upgrade, I wanted to […]
It turned out to be really easy to do Bluetooth HotSync from my Treo 650 to my Fedora Core Linux box. On the Linux box: service bluetooth start service dund start Create the /etc/ppp/peers/dun file: 115200 192.168.2.15:192.168.2.16 local ms-dns 192.168.1.14 noauth debug The first IP address is the local machine and the second is the […]
This was posted with mo:Blog, a blog client for PalmOS. It supports the blogger, metaWeblog, and MovableType APIs. The MovableType API is supposed to work best with Typo.
I got Typo working as I want it. The solution was adding a line to config/environment.rb to tell it to make all the links relative. I didn’t need the new strip-request-uri parameter for lighttpd. ActionController::AbstractRequest.relative_url_root = “/blog” Then I setup up the proxying. This was done through webmin but the directives produced were: ProxyPass /blog […]
I am switching the blog to [Typo](http://typo.leetsoft.com/), blog software written in [Ruby](http://rubylang.org), using the [Rails](http://rubyonrails.com) framework. The hard part is getting the software to run fast and run where I want it [https://znark.com/blog/](https://znark.com/blog/). FastCGI and Apache don’t seem to work with my hosting company. So I could run it through CGI which means the each […]
On my final day, I was planning on taking the ferry to Port Angeles, across the Strait of Juan de Fuca and then driving past the Olympic Mountains. But the morning ferry was full and I wasn’t willing to wait for the afternoon one. I drove back north to the other ferry terminal and caught […]
The next day I went to the attractions in Victoria. It was another atypical beautiful day. I took a [water taxi](http://www.harbourferry.com/) on a tour of the harbor. I got to see seaplanes landing and taking off nearby.  I went to the [Undersea Gardens](http://www.pacificunderseagardens.com/). Basically, they walled off part of the harbor, stocked it with […]
The next day, I took the [ferry](http://www.bcferries.com) to Victoria on Vancouver Island. The ferry was a huge vessel which carried 200 plus cars and trucks on two decks. The ferry wound its way through the lovely Gulf Islands to Schwartz Bay on the north point of Saanich Peninsula, 30 minutes drive north of Victoria.  […]
It rained all day long on my third day in Vancouver. First, I went to Stanley Park. Stanley Park covers half of the peninsula with downtown. I went to the [Vancouver Aquarium](http://www.vanaqua.org/home/). I discovered taking pictures of moving dolphins and belugas underwater is difficult. And discovered that taking pictures of animalI walked along the seawall […]